Are the News Media Soft on Bush? That much-ballyhooed
“liberal press”
hasn’t been nearly
as tough on President
Bush as it was on his
predecessor. One key
reason: Bush’s controversies
have involved policy rather
than personal peccadilloes, and
the media have a much bigger appetite for the latter. But does
the weapons of mass destruction
flap presage a shift?
> read more By
Rachel Smolkin
Baghdad Urban Legends How come so many people think weapons
of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, or
that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11 attacks? Are the news media to blame?
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Lori Robertson
Bureau of Missing Bureaus Although television
networks have closed many
of their expensive foreign
outposts, executives say they
can cover the world just as well by dispatching reporters from central hubs. But critics say the shuttered offices come at a steep cost
to the public. What is the
future for foreign
news on TV?
> read more By
Lucinda Fleeson
State of The American Newspaper G.A.s for the World Foreign correspondents
were once trained specialists who focused on specific countries or regions. Not after 9/11. They’re now likely
to be dispatched to cover conflicts virtually anywhere--and national and metro reporters are frequently thrown into the mix.
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Stephen Seplow
Dismantling the Language Barrier In an effort to crack the burgeoning
Hispanic market, major newspaper companies
are investing in new and expanded
Spanish-language editions.
> read more By
Tim Porter
Too Young to Read? A twentysomething
journalist is underwhelmed by the efforts of newspapers to attract that coveted and elusive 18-to-34 demographic.
> read more By
Rachel Smolkin
Lots of Facts, But Not Much More Deadlines Past Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter’s Story
By Walter Mears
Andrews McMeel
360 pages; $24.95
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Carl Sessions Stepp
From Celebrity to Celebratory Ghetto Celebrity: Searching for My Father in Me
By Donnell Alexander
Crown Publishing
288 pages; $22.95
The Best of Emerge Magazine
Edited by George E. Curry
Ballantine Books
665 pages; $19.95
> read more Book review by
Darryl Wellington
Brevity Pays Managing editor offers an unusual incentive for shorter stories at
California's Contra Costa Times
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Jill Rosen
Back to Boulder Susan Deans returns to her journalism roots to lead the Daily Camera
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Jill Rosen
Back to School An L.A. Times reporter will head a literary journalism program while
other journalists take academic positions
> read more By
Jill Rosen
